BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.
The President according to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, will be spending a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up.
He is expected back in the country by the second week of August, 2021.
The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, is expected to bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders.
The Summit would also provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices.
Adesina said that the Summit will also offer the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE’s work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories.
According to Adesina; “Deliberations at the Summit will focus on: The Power of Education –A Conversation between Global Champions; Transforming Education for Girls; Financing for Impact and Recovery and; What Now? Priorities for Transforming Education in the Coming Five Years, among others”.
He said that President Buhari will also hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The presidential spokesman said that the President will be accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.
